T 0338/00 (Multimeric Receptors/SALK INSTITUTE) of 06.11.2002
- European Case Law Identifier
- ECLI:EP:BA:2002:T033800.20021106
- Date of decision
- 6 November 2002
- Case number
- T 0338/00
- Petition for review of
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- Application number
- 93900894.2
- IPC class
- C12N 15/12
- Language of proceedings
- English
- Distribution
- Distributed to board chairmen (C)
- Download
- Decision in English
- OJ versions
- No OJ links found
- Other decisions for this case
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- Abstracts for this decision
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- Application title
- Multimeric forms of members of the steroid/thyroid superfamily of receptors
- Applicant name
- THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES
- Opponent name
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- Board
- 3.3.08
- Headnote
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- Relevant legal provisions
- European Patent Convention Art 52(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 52(2) 1973European Patent Convention Art 56 1973European Patent Convention Art 57 1973European Patent Convention Art 82 1973European Patent Convention R 27(1)(f) 1973European Patent Convention R 30 1973
- Keywords
- Main request - discovery (no)
Industrial application (yes)
Inventive step (no)
First auxiliary request - unity (no)
Second auxiliary request - inventive step (yes) - Catchword
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ORDER
For these reasons it is decided that:
1. The decision under appeal is set aside.
2. The case is remitted to the first instance with the order to grant a patent on the basis of:
Claims: 1 to 9 of auxiliary request II filed at oral proceedings on 6 November 2002;
Description: Amended description filed at oral proceedings on 6 November 2002;
Drawings: Figures 1, 2A, 2B and 2C as filed at oral proceedings on 6 November 2002